Tag: Latvia
Baltic Demography 2025: Low Births Keep Natural Decline in Place
Estonia and Latvia have published full-year 2025 demographic data, while Lithuania’s provisional demographic indicators show how the same pressures shaped the country at the turn of 2026.
Baltic agriculture 2025: Latvia has the eggs, Estonia has the dairy cows, Lithuania has the scale
The Baltic states share a region, but not one agricultural model. Latvia stands out in egg production, Estonia through high-yield dairy cows, while Lithuania has the broadest agricultural scale.
Baltic retail split widened in May as Lithuania pulled ahead and Estonia slipped
May retail data show a widening split inside the Baltic consumer market.
Baltic food price check: cheapest staples still hold, but pressure shifts by category
Comparison vs April 2026.Method: non-promotional prices only.Sources: Rimi + Barbora online retail checks.Focus: lowest visible baseline price, not average basket price. By 30 June, the cheapest visible Baltic food basket was still available, but the picture became less even than in April.
Latvia +10.9%, Lithuania +11.9% in Q1: Baltic house prices rose, but pressure points differed
The data point to three different pressure points:
Latvia’s LVM cyberattack is no longer just a company incident
Around 7,000 reportedly stolen employee passwords, deleted backups, a possible personal data breach and a state-owned company linked to election-system development: the cyberattack on Latvijas valsts meži (LVM) has moved beyond a normal company-level IT incident.
The Baltics in 2026: recovery turns into a test of the next growth model
The Baltic economies are expected to keep growing in 2026, but the regional baseline is no longer a straightforward rebound story. The regional context is not neutral.
Latvia’s stable banks, narrower core
Latvia’s officially recognised systemic banking core has narrowed
CapMan buys Hansabuss — and a place inside Latvia’s regional mobility system
Hansa Group has agreed to sell Hansabuss, the largest private operator of public bus lines in the Baltics, to CapMan Nordic Infrastructure II,
Baltic Focus Week Map
Baltic Focus Week Map, 8–14 June 2026: the week’s key Baltic economic signals in numbers.
The Purple Tomato Case: why Latvia’s GMO seedling case matters
GMO tomato seedlings in Latvia exposed a regulatory gap: Norfolk Purple moved through a gardening fair and informal seed channels.